English
spawn camp
From spawn (“a location on a game map in which a player spawns”) + camp (“to stay beside something to gain an advantage”).
A compound of spawn ‘a location on a game map in which a player…’ + camp ‘to stay beside something to gain an advantage’
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ‘to spread out’
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Latin expandō ‘stretch out’
Old French espandre
Anglo-Norman espaundre
Middle English spawnen
English spawn
Latin campus ‘open field’
Proto-West Germanic *kamp ‘open field where military exercises are held’
Old English camp ‘battle’
Middle English kampe ‘battlefield’
English camp
Today it means
verb To stay near a spawn point in order to kill players immediately after they spawn.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “spawn camp”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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